Generate SVG output with dvisvgm about ipython-tikzmagic HOT 4 OPEN

Hi David
your fork is still active because this base looks not being updated any more? (no replies for many recent issues)

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@parthi2929 I made some changes to incorporate dvisvgm support. I am currently using this on an almost daily basis, but I have not needed to make many changes to the code.

You may wish to try out my fork. Using the --dvisvgm option (assuming you have dvisvgm installed), the output file now scales much more logically, and it probably solves your issue #27.

Please understand that this is just a volunteer project created for the dev's on needs. Resolving everyone else's issues requires time and commitment that not everyone has.

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this @mkrphys base has an svg option, but when i try it fails.

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The standard SVG conversion option is based on generating a PDF, then extracting an SVG with imagemagick. Imagemagick needs to be installed, also this extension needs to know where to find it. Under windows the default executable name is different to what the extension is expecting, so I added a -i option to allow the filename and path of imagemagick to be specified.

The approach I added in this issue is quite different. It generates a dvi, then converts to svg using dvisvgm (which should be already installed on any modern latex distribution). I found the output is much better quality, and scaling works better. Also, this approach enables SVG ids to be added to elements of the drawing, for making them interactive with javascript.

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